Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Never have varmints, only grandvarmints.

I like the distance that Europe gives me. Also if I stayed in America I'd be a full-time politician and have no time for writing, which is why I went to Europe to live in 1961.

Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was.

I don't deny or affirm anything. I'm not very personal.

You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.